Artist biography

Biography of Daniel Messina

DANIEL MESSINADrummer & Composer

Daniel Messina has long been known to European jazz fans. With his dynamic, thoroughly musical and technically exquisite style of play, Messina's tour work and recordings with the likes of Barbara Dennerlein and Ernie Watts have won him the admiration of lovers of complex rhythms. Born in Argentina in 1965, Messina, who has a string of awards to his name, has been living in Germany since 1991.Messina once again proves himself to be not only a very accomplished drummer and percussionist, but also an imaginative composer and arranger.The mutual compatibility of the trio, completed by Ull Möck and Thomas Rotter, is strongly in evidence and Daniel Messina’s music is performed with taste and great sensitivity. His melodies are most appealing to the ear and really touch the soul and his drumming is precise and controlled.

Buenos Aires is a big city, a melting pot for music all over the world. The music of Daniel Messina is the result of this fusion and the strive for a joint development of all these different styles. Daniel Messina was able to create an innovative symbiosis of South American rhythmic elements with popular harmonies and influences of Jazz.

Every song is a story, just like a small movie, a photograph, a place or a journey.

With modern sounds, power and an impressive interpretation, the atmosphere on stage conveys the feelings and experiences of a musician of the new Argentine generation.

Daniel Messina was born on April 9th, 1965 in José C. Paz, Buenos Aires, Argentina.At the age of six, he began to play drums and guitar. He learned to play drums on his own for almost ten years by playing along different records and using a book by Gene Krupa. His first teacher for about three years was Omar Belmonte. After that, he studied five year longs with Elias "Chiche" Heger at the Escuela Nacionál de Batería y Percusión. During that time, he played in different bands like for example Apertura, Quinteto el Quartetazo or the Baden Jazz Quartett.

He also wrote a workshop column in the music magazine "El musiquero" from October 1989 until June 1991.

At the age of 26, Daniel Messina emigrated to Germany.He played there in Real Blues Band, with Yanomani and the Pablo Vázquez Trio.

Since 1993 Daniel Messina is a drum teacher in the drum department Stuttgart.

An important step in his career is the co-operation with the renowned jazz Barbara Dennerlein since 1995, with whom he recorded her current duo CD "Love Letters" in 2001.

In 1996 he founded the Daniel Messina Band, which is a continuation of his project with own compositions and arrangements that he has already started in Argentina in 1989.In 1999 the CD "Imágenes" was released.

In january 2001 Daniel Messina started with his band the concert series"Jazz Edge on Saturday" at Buch Julius in Stuttgart, which meanwhile has become an in-scene meeting point and which is already successfully entering upon its seventh year.

Since the start of Jazz Network Radio in september 2001 he has directed the editorship of the latin channel and since february 2002 also the editorshipof the drummer channel, Drummer´s Special.

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